[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.9

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Daniel Hartwig (mandyke at gmail.com):
> On 1 July 2012 17:19, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
> <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > but since aptitude is a
> > standalone and relatively straightforward package, accepting a new
> > minor version early in the freeze doesn't tend to cause big problems.
> 
> The only problems I foresee are with the new command-line handling,
> which is much stricter about what is acceptable.  As mentioned, I have
> performed some testing with other programs (tasksel, cronapt) but do
> not usually use them myself.  The more likely disruption is to a
> persons personal scripts and/or usage patterns, which will have to be
> adjusted.  IMO the changes make the program more correct and I am
> willing to work to fix any potential breakage introduced.
> 
> So Axel, Christian, please make a judgement call on this before
> deciding to upload, for the reasons Manual mentions below.  If these
> command-line changes aren't really appropriate at this stage of
> releasing (I don't really have experience to judge that properly) then
> we'll just leave this version until after Wheezy.

I think it's too late for wheezy if aptitude's interface
changes. You'll have hard times convincing the release managers that
such changes are worth a freeze exception.

My advice would be using experimental for new versions from now
on. And thus keep unstable uploads for things meant for wheezy and
that should have got pre-approval by release managers.

To summarize:

- translation and documentation updates are safe to do without
pre-approval

- the same stands for release-critical bugs

- other fixes must get a pre-approval by the Release Team. In general,
fixing important bugs is considered safe at this point of the freeze,
assuming the diff is not too big. Also, trivial fixes can make it when
they're really trivial.

- avoid packaging style changes




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